This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 9th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is include employee transactions in exchange rate adjustment report – Czechia.

You can use general journals for employee accounts to register employee expenses and reimbursement transactions in foreign currencies, and then easily track the amounts and compare them to receipts. The Czech version of the exchange rate adjustment report (31004) now allows you to include employee transactions.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

When you use general journals to post transactions for employee accounts, such as when you reimburse expenses, you can use the Currency Code field to specify the currency for the transactions. Specifying a currency lets you use the same features as when you register transactions in the customer and vendor ledgers. For example, employees can register an expense in euros but get paid in dollars.

To ensure that the exchange rate for the amounts is up to date, you can adjust employee balances when you run the Czech version of a currency exchange rate batch job (Adjust Exchange Rates CZL (31004)). If you want to use the exchange rate table, but settle employee balances in your local currency, you can exclude employee accounts when you adjust exchange rates.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 8th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is vAT Return feature now available – Czechia.

The standard VAT Return feature can now be used to submit a VAT return in compliance with Czech law.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Nov 2024

Feature Details

Previously, the VAT Statement feature was used for VAT returns in the Czech version of Business Central. We’ve now added the option to use the standard VAT Return feature in Business Central. The VAT return is generated and submitted to the “Moje daně” portal. The lines on the VAT return are created based on the settings in the VAT statement. The system verifies if a regular VAT return has already been created for the period. However, since there can be multiple corrective and additional returns for a given period, this is not checked. This feature allows the VAT return to be saved, providing the user with immediate access to it in the system for future reference.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 7th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is advance letters with reverse charge – Czechia.

By eliminating the need to automatically post advance tax documents for reverse charge payments, businesses can streamline their processes, reduce administrative overhead, and enhance operational efficiency.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

The new functionality allows you to post advances in accordance with the Czech VAT Act and not create tax documents for payments of advances or parts thereof under the reverse charge regime. This function can be set up in the Advance Letter Templates.

For advances with both normal VAT and reverse charge transactions, tax documents for payments will be posted only for the parts corresponding to normal transactions. Thus, only the parts of the document with normal transactions will be included in the VAT statement and the VAT Control report. The parts of the advances corresponding to the reverse charge will be posted to the final invoices in the standard way, that is, they will reduce the invoice balance but not the VAT value of the transaction.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 6th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is calculate and post VAT settlement by Activity Code – Italy.

Users can ensure full compliance with Italian tax regulations by calculating VAT settlements based on activity codes.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Nov 2024

Feature Details

This feature allows users to configure various Activity Codes, such as trade or service, for use in VAT Settlements. When enabled, Business Central will support posting multiple VAT settlements within the same period, each associated with a different Activity Code. These activity codes will also be recorded in the Periodic Settlement VAT Entry. Once a VAT settlement for a specific period is posted, the system will automatically document the period in the corresponding Activity Codes, ensuring accurate and compliant reporting.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 5th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is posting of alternative customer-vendor posting groups – Czechia.

Thanks to this modification, turnovers on customer or vendor balance accounts will not be increased and values will not be distorted during analyses.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

If different customer or vendor posting groups are used on an invoice, credit note or payment document, then the G/L entries are automatically recharged between the accounts from each posting group when applying customer/vendor entries. The previous posting method for applying items increased the turnover on the debit and credit sides by the same amount.

This modification accounts for the balancing as a correction—that is, only one side of the debit or credit account is used for posting. This avoids increasing the turnover on the balance accounts and distorting the values in the analyses.

One of the pieces of new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 is Master Data Management which allows you to sync setup and/or master data between companies in the same environment.

We’ve made some use of his functionality on a recent project, but encountered a problem when trying to enable it for the tables and fields we had selected:

We looked into the issue and identified it as being that I had a partner licence for the clients system and creation and running of job queues is not permitted for this type of licence. The “workaround” is to either have an account on the client system created for the duration of the project and assign it a full Business Central Essentials licence or to have someone from the client do anything which requires a job queue.

Neither of these options is especially useful, but it is a result of a restriction put in place by Microsoft. I’m not sure why the restriction is in place, but it is a very inconvenient one.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 5th of the new functionality in the section is deferral accounting – posting the original amount as correction – Czechia.

The deferrals functionality lets you automatically defer revenues and expenses over a specified schedule and multiple accounting periods, giving accountants more control over when people post deferrals. Deferral accounting in such a way that the derecognition of the original amount entered does not increase turnover.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

You can define periods during which you allow people to post deferrals for specific users on the G/L Setup page, and for users on the User Setup page by entering dates in the Allow Deferral Posting From and Allow Deferral Posting To fields. This lets people post deferral entries in a future period, even though the Allow Posting From/To fields block other entries. Within this new Czech functionality, accrual accounting is implemented in order to avoid increasing the turnover by de-recognizing the originally entered amount.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 14th of the new functionality in the Copilot and AI innovation section is get usage telemetry on Copilot extensions as an ISV.

Providing developers with a way to collect telemetry data on customer usage of their extensions to Copilot empowers them to understand the adoption, success, and safety of the extensions. Telemetry makes it easier and more effective for developers to gather this data and make timely adjustments..

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

Prior to this release wave, if a method in a system module was instrumented with telemetry, any call from AL to the method wouldn’t be sent as a telemetry event to the app publisher’s telemetry pipeline.

This condition has now changed. A telemetry event from the system module (as long as Scope == All) is sent to the Application Insights resource defined in the app.json manifest of the calling app/extension. This capability is particularly beneficial for the Copilot system module.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 13th of the new functionality in the Copilot and AI innovation section is experience enhancements to chat with Copilot.

For our customers, much of their workday revolves around chatting with coworkers, customers, and vendors to get insights and solve problems. Now, Dynamics 365 Copilot helps them continue the conversation in Business Central with AI-powered chat alongside their data. Copilot in Business Central transforms how people approach business applications by empowering workers to express themselves using their own language.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Oct 2024
General Availability: –

Feature Details

In this wave, Microsoft evolve chat with Copilot (first announced for 2024 release wave 1) based on community feedback:

• Faster: Copilot fetches records more quickly.
• Better at data inquiries: Copilot generates analysis tabs directly from the Chat pane to help you get to insights about your data. Copilot takes this approach whenever you ask questions that are best illustrated by grouped records or simple math such as totals or averages. Try entering, “In which countries are my top customers?”
  
• Awareness of the current page: Copilot responds to requests to find data from the currently open page, using its ability to filter, sort, and generate analysis tabs to help you get to insights. Try entering, “Which products are blue on the current page?” while the Items list page is open.
• Interconnected AI: Copilot helps you understand how it can provide additional AI-powered assistance on the current page, identifying built-in features as well as extensions to Copilot. Try entering, “What can Copilot do on this page?”
• More knowledgeable: Copilot uses more sources of information from Microsoft Learn to explain and guide. For example, it now searches learning paths and release plans.
• More examples: The prompt guides (displayed at the bottom of the chat pane) include new example prompts and a link to tips and tricks to improve your prompt skills.
  

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 12th of the new functionality in the Copilot and AI innovation section is display errors and messages in Copilot prompt dialogs.

Users learning to work with Copilot often need a simple and effective feedback loop to help them experiment and make the most out of their AI-powered assistant.

Copilot features that display a prompt dialog can now show errors and messages directly inside the dialog. While prompt dialogs aren’t intended for conversational experiences, the integrated feedback keeps users focused on the dialog without distraction.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Oct 2024
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

Errors and messages that are thrown by the code logic in Copilot prompt dialogs now surface directly inside the dialog rather than in a separate pop-up dialog. There’s no additional work required by developers to enable this feature, apart from authoring proper error handling and warnings as you already do today. Both the classic Dialog.Error() and Dialog.Message(), as well as the newer ErrorInfo patterns are supported. In the case of the latter, the title and description will both be shown.

If the code throws more than one message, only the latest will be shown, but the user is told that there were multiple issues. Also, as has already been the case, if an error is thrown, a subsequent message will be suppressed. If the error or message contains line breaks, these are ignored, as opposed to rendering in dialogs.

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